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Iraq
Spokesman: Turkish operations in Iraq do not interfere with coalition’s
2018-06-06
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Operations by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
against Kurdish groups in northern Iraq do not interfere with those conducted by the U.S.-led international coalition against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
hard boys, a spokesperson of the coalition said Tuesday.

"Operations by Turkey in Iraq are done through close cooperation with the government of Iraq," wrote Colonel Sean Ryan, front man for Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), via twitter.

"Turkey is a close ally & member of CJTFOIR, and Coalition does not foresee conflict with our mission to defeat ISIS (Islamic State)," Ryan tweeted.
But if the Kurds are hamstrung, will ISIS remain defeated?
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  There was that line in Braveheart(1995): Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing."
The Kurds really have no reason to feel loyalty to any of their neighbors...
Posted by: magpie   2018-06-06 15:46  

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